UKIP MEP Nigel Farage has mocked and criticised President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani for claiming that the European Union brought down Nazism and Soviet Communism, regimes which fell years before the Maastricht Treaty founded the bloc.

German radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk Kultur has claimed that the Islamic holy month of Ramadan is not only an “old German custom” but that it had been celebrated in the country longer than Oktoberfest.